Becoming Catholic

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Cressler
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Catholic Schools ◽  
Black Catholics ◽  
Children And Parents ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Theories Of Religion ◽  
American Children ◽  
The Many

This chapter argues that in order to fully understand why African Americans converted to Catholicism, it is important to avoid functionalist answers that attempt to reduce conversion to a choice on the part of the convert and instead attend to the many overlapping practices, pressures, experiences, and relationships that shaped the process of becoming someone new. Intervening in debates in theories of religion, it further argues that scholars should take seriously the claims made by Black Catholics that “faith” made them Catholic, which should then lead scholars to consider what conditions make faith possible in the first place. It discusses “the Chicago Plan,” devised by Fr. Martin Farrell and Fr. Joseph Richards, in which missionary priests and sisters explicitly linked the enrollment of non-Catholic children in Catholic schools with mandatory religious education of the family in order to promote the conversion of African Americans. It then explores in depth the inner lives of African American children and parents in Catholic schools who became Catholic as they learned new ways of living in and experiencing the world.

scholarly journals Peran Keluarga terhadap Peningkatan Spiritual Remaja pada Masa Pandemi Covid 19

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-45
Author(s):  
Meyva Polii
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Spiritual Growth ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
At Home

Abstract. The world is currently facing the covid-19 pandemic which has been shifting most of human daily life by using digital technology. One that was worried about the teenagers spirituality disruption due to excessive use of digital technology. This paper aimed to study the parenetal’s role in the spiritual growth of teenagers during the covid-19 pandemic through a literature study. Through this study, it was concluded that the pandemic period was an opportunity for parents to optimally implement Christian Religious Education in the family due to the large amount of meeting time between parents and teenagers at home. Thus it can be an opportunity for parents to as much as possible improve the spirituality of their teenagers.Abstrak. Saat ini dunia tengah dihadapkan dengan fenomena pandemi covid-19 yang mengalihkan sebagian besar rutinitas manusia dengan menggunakan teknologi digital. Salah satu hal yang dikuatirkan dampaknya terhadap spiritual remaja yang akan merosot karena penyalagunaan teknologi digital secara berlebihan. Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji peran orang tua terhadap pertumbuhan spiritual remaja pada masa pandemi covid-19 melalui studi kepustakaan. Melalui kajian ini disimpulkan bahwa masa pandemi menjadi kesempatan bagi orang tua untuk menerapkan Pendidikan Agama Kristen dalam keluarga secara optimal oleh karena banyaknya waktu pertemuan antara orang tua dan remaja di rumah. Dengan demikian hal itu dapat menjadi peluang bagi orang tua untuk semaksimal mungkin meningkatkan kerohanian anak remajanya.

scholarly journals On Commandment as Refuge: Exploring the Politics of Health and Indigenous African Religion on Covid-19

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sepetla Molapo
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
World Health Organisation ◽  
World Health ◽  
Health It ◽  
African Countries ◽  
African Religion ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Pragmatic Turn ◽  
Inclusive Form

This paper explores the significance of the turn to the religion of the family and the clan (i.e., indigenous African religion) taking place under the contemporary conditions of Covid-19 in many African countries. It does this in order to exhibit the Africanity that is hidden by this otherwise pragmatic turn. The paper explores this Africanity by drawing from the classical African story of Seila-Tsatsi, which it argues has its roots in religious education. The key aim of its examination of this Africanity is interrogate a politics of health it claims the World Health Organisation advances. The paper does not explore this turn by accounting for the meanings individuals attribute to it but is rather abstract and conceptual in its approach. The argument it makes is that the contemporary turn to the religion of the family and the clan exhibits desire for an inclusive form of relationality that ought to inform fair, equitable and just health outcomes. It argues that the WHO’s politics of health is blind to this model because it stubbornly upholds binary thought.

scholarly journals Znaczenie bliskości rodziny podczas choroby

2016 ◽  
pp. 383-395
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Zastawnik
Keyword(s):  
Healthy People ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Sick People ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Past Life ◽  
The Many ◽  
Mutual Responsibility

The problem of the disease, di­rectly or indirectly, affects every human being. Despite the development of many sciences that lend it to a thorough as­sessment, disease and suffering are for us largely a mystery. We observe that at a time when a person is faced with one of the many unknowns in life, what is a disease. This difficult moment of hu­man existence makes that a man is faced with existential questions, including re­flection on death. The issue not concerns only the sick people, but also members of their families. They must also confront their past life with a new, uneasy reality. Article draws attention to the role that for the patient has contact with oth­er people, especially with family mem­bers. By understanding the dificulty of these relationships, the author points to the need of building mutual understand­ing and taking in families uneasy dia­logue of two worlds: the world of the dis­ease and the world of healthy people. At the same time it points to the family as on the environment in shaping a prop­er attitude toward our neighbor, it also learn to overcome common difficulties and mutual responsibility.

scholarly journals EKSISTENSI MEBEL BAMBU DI TENGAH PERKEMBANGAN DESAIN DAN TEKNOLOGI

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Usman Lubis ◽  
Resky Annisa Damayanti
Keyword(s):  
Family Environment ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Non Timber Forest Products ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Many

<p><strong>Abstract</strong><br />Nowadays, more and more people are turning to modern and contemporary style when it comes to choosing furniture for their homes, offices, restaurants, or hotels. In the past we might tend to back the use of natural elements, and one of the many popular products are bamboo. Bamboo as one of the most important non-timber forest products and fastest-growing plants in the world. As it known that bamboo craft is a folk craft products that has been around for a long time and developed hereditary, therefore we should preserve it. At first the user<br />of bamboo furniture is from the family environment which later evolved to reach a wider market. Many craftsmen developed an appreciation of the existing ones to create a new design that is estimated to sell in the market. The hope is to make<br />our bamboo furniture craft products can compete with the products of other countries.</p><p><br /><strong>Abstrak</strong><br />Saat ini semakin banyak orang yang beralih ke gaya modern dan kontemporer dalam memilih mebel untuk rumah tinggal mereka, kantor, restoran, atau bahkan hotel. Dahulu mungkin kita cenderung untuk memilih desain dan gaya klasik, tetapi sekarang ini orang cenderung kembali mempergunakan unsur-unsur alam, dan salah satu produk alam yang banyak digemari adalah bambu. Bambu sebagai salah satu produk non-kayu yang penting serta tanaman yang pertumbuhannya paling cepat di dunia. Seperti diketahui bahwa kerajinan bambu merupakan produk kerajinan rakyat yang telah ada sejak lama dan dikembangkan secara turun temurun, maka sudah<br />selayaknya hal ini perlu dilestarikan. Pada mulanya pemakai kerajinan mebel bambu hanyalah dari lingkungan keluarga yang kemudian berkembang hingga mencapai lingkungan pasar yang lebih luas. Banyak para pengrajin mengembangkan apresiasi yang sudah ada dengan membuat desain baru yang diperkirakan akan laku di pasaran. Harapannya adalah agar produk kerajinan mebel bambu negara kita dapat bersaing dengan produk negara lainnya.<br /><br /></p>

The Children Act 1989: Success or failure

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simonetta Agnello Hornby
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Governmental Agency ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Children And Parents ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Right

Heralded as the most progressive legislation of the world, the Children Act of 1989 revolutionized children’s law in England and Wales. It is underpinned by six principles: the supremacy of the child’s interest in all decisions concerning their upbringing and education; the recognition that it is best for any chid to be brought up by their blood family, that his religious and ethnic background must be respected, and that siblings should not be separated; the abolition of the stigma of illegitimacy and its replacement with the attribution at birth of paternal responsibility to the child’s father; the unification of public and private law, and the creation of the ‘menu’ of Residence, Contact, Prohibition, and Specific Issue orders available to the court; the establisment of the new principle that time is of the essence in all cases relating to children; and the creation of the presumption that ‘no order is better than an order’ thus the ingerence of the court must be minimal. I believed in those principles and in the benefits that the Children Act would bring to my clients—children and parents alike. I had some reservations: the system was expensive to implement on two counts: first, it gave the child a ‘guardian’ (a qualified social worker appointed by the court through CAFCASS, a governmental agency), as well as their own solicitor paid for by Legal Aid, as was the representative of the parents, who had the right to instruct independent experts; second, because its requirements of social services and other agencies involved further training and increased resources, as well as further involvement of the judiciary, and increased court time. Hornby and Levy were at the forefront of its implementation: our entire staff received in-house training that was open to other disciplines, within the spirit of cooperation between agencies that permeated the Act and its implementation. I also lectured in Britain and abroad and was proud to tell others that social services were under a duty to keep families united, rather than removing children from parents, and make efforts to return to the family the child removed from it, or if this failed, to place the child within the extended family, or with adoptive parents, within a year.

(Arm) Wrestling with Masculinity: Television, Toughness, and the Touch of Another Man’s Hand

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 821-849 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Scott Diffrient
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Many ◽  
Compositional Logic ◽  
Visual Motif

For decades, dating back to the medium’s origins as a commercially viable form of mass communication in the postwar years, US television programs have contributed to the many paradoxes of masculinity, revealing but also obscuring the normativizing function of cultural representations through the use of generic encoding and the compositional “logic” of male (visual) dominance. One visual motif in particular—the shot of two men sitting at a table, their hands temporarily locked as part of an arm wrestling contest—is noteworthy, given the frequency of its recurrence in a variety of fictional programming ( All in the Family, The Odd Couple, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, etc.) as well as for its literal staging of masculinity as spectacle, as an object of spectatorial contemplation vis-à-vis the televisual construction of “toughness” as an inherently male attribute. If television and toughness can be said to go “hand in hand,” then the actual sight of two men joined together in a physical contest hints at the idea that intimacy is at much a part of such ritualized representations as intimidation is. Indeed, what several of the episodes discussed in this article (selected from representative television programs of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s) reveal is that a man is sometimes at his most unguarded—his most forthcoming and honest—when seated opposite another man during an arm wrestling match, a moment that is deserving of consideration as a symptomatic illustration of masculinity’s paradoxes. Inspired by the early writings of Roland Barthes, in particular the French philosopher’s essay “The World of Wrestling” (published as part of his 1957 book Mythologies), I ultimately hope to reveal how seemingly innocuous images are “invested with ideological meanings,” unwittingly revealing what they often seek to conceal.

scholarly journals THE DILEMMA OF ISLAMIC EDUCATION AND PROSTITUTION LIFE

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Waza Karia Akbar ◽  
Yuhelna Yuhelna ◽  
Sri Rahmadani
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Religious Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many

The Minangkabau society is famous for the tradisional philosophy of adat basandi sarak, sarak basandi kitabullah (ABS-SBK). Education and religious values have been passed down from one generation to another. However, it is still not going well. It is seen with the many women who are trapped in negative terms. They are very weak people in the economy and religious education. The goal to be achieved in this study in find out the causes of Minangkabau women who are continually involved in the world prostitution. The focus of this research is the woman in the localization of the goddess Aro, West Sumatera. The method used by researchers is qualitative with case studies in the Andam Dewi. The findings suggest that those involved in prostitution were women aged 17-27 years old because of the economic factors and religious knowledge are very weak. Other findings also show the weak role of Mamak in Minangkabau in monitoring its ministry.

scholarly journals Konsep Pendidikan Anak Perspektif Zakiah Daradjat Dan Relevansinya Dengan Tujuan Pendidikan Islam

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (02) ◽  
pp. 301-331
Author(s):  
Nurul Hakim ◽  
Susi Fitriana
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Female Figure ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
The Family ◽  
Child Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Children’S Education

Child education holds a major influence on the child's future. Today, many children who are damaged morally even have many problems in the world of child education. As a result children deviate even fall into criminal acts. To foster children's education in the aspects of family, school and society it is important for educators to introduce these three aspects. In introducing these three aspects, there must have been a lot of thoughts of figures discussing children's education, one of which was Zakiah Daradjat. Zakiah Daradjat is the only thinker who instills the concept of education based on Islamic scholarship on children's education in families, schools and communities. He is a female figure in Indonesia who has put a lot of attention in various fields including education, morals, the lives of children, youth, teachers, families and schools. The results of this discussion are (1) the concept of children's education in the family aspect perspective Zakiah Daradjat includes parents to be role models for children, cultivation of soul and taqwa given to children, (2) the concept of child education in the school aspect perspective Zakiah Daradjat includes mental, moral guidance , religious education conducted intensively and talent then fosters children's intelligence, (3) relevance of the concept of child education in family aspects and school aspects of perspective Zakiah Daradjat with the aim of Islamic education in the family aspect is the experience received by children, in the aspect of school, namely intelligence, whereas in the aspect of society namely the achievement of education in a real society.

Children's Cancer Camps

2015 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 436-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine M. Laing ◽  
Nancy J. Moules
Keyword(s):  
Childhood Cancer ◽  
Cancer Diagnosis ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Philosophical Hermeneutic ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many

A philosophical hermeneutic study was conducted as part of the first author's doctoral research to understand the meaning of children's cancer camps for the child with cancer and the family. Twenty family members from six families were interviewed in order to bring understanding to this topic. This article will detail the finding related to the experience of grief that often accompanies a cancer diagnosis, and how camp seems to allow children and families to understand their grief differently. The interesting thing about this particular cancer camp is that families of children who have died continue to attend the camp yearly, and there are events to memorialize the many children known to all the campers who no longer attend camp. This is not a grief camp but a cancer camp where grief is allowed presence as it necessarily has to in the world of childhood cancer.

scholarly journals The Genera of Nearctic Therevidae

1980 ◽  
Vol 32 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 193-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael E. Irwin ◽  
Leif L. Lyneborg
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Immature Stages ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
Phylogenetic Placement ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many ◽  
Preliminary Classification

During the course of preparing the Therevidae chapter for the soon-to-be published Manual of Nearctic Diptera (Canada Department of Agriculture 1981), we've found that the previously published descriptions of genera were totally inadequate to form a framework for the therevid species of North America. The genus Psilocephala Zett., for instance, was found to be polyphyletic, containing species from several diverse ancestors. An effort to describe the many new genera contained herein was begun because we realized the definitive nature of the forthcoming Manual of Nearctic Diptera and the importance of establishing a generic base for the Therevidae founded on synapomorphies. We have restrained ourselves from grouping the genera beyond the subfamilial level simply because we feel that better natural groupings can be formed once genera from other parts of the world are included in the scheme. We have attempted to place the described species in the new generic concepts at the end of each diagnosis. All North American genera are diagnosed, and male terminalia are figured for all genera. In total, 29 genera and 143 currently valid species have been described for North America, excluding Apsilocephala Krober (1914) and its included species, longistyla Krober (1914), which we feel does not belong within the family Therevidae. We have not included Melanothereva MaWoch (1932:249) that occurs in Chile, Peru, and parts of Argentina and contains a single Nearctic species, nigra (Bellardi) [1861:92, (Psilocephala)] that, to our knowledge, has not been rediscovered since it was first described from Mexico. The descriptions and keys follow morphological terminology developed by us. Male terminalia characters were originally defined and described by Lyneborg (1968a) and have since been modified slightly by Lyneborg (1972, 1976, and 1978) and by Irwin (1977a and 1977b). Female terminalia characters were defined and described by Irwin (1976) . Other morphological features are generally accepted in Diptera literature, and we refrain from detailing them here. The immature stages of Therevidae have not been used in developing this preliminary classification. Larval and pupal stadia are being gathered and associated with adults in the hope that eventually they will help to elucidate the proper phylogenetic placement of species within genera and genera within suprageneric taxa.

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